1 Changes in release 3.3.3
3 * amdump.X log files use timestamp instead of number, amdump and amdump.1
4 are maintained as symlink.
6 o Use the changerfile for the statefile.
8 o support CASTOR storage
10 o New REPORT-USE-MEDIA and REPORT-NEXT-MEDIA.
12 o new --extract, --directory, --data-path and --application-property
13 arguments. It allow to do the extraction on the server.
14 * --exact-match argument to many command, and '=' prefix to expression.
15 o It diable use of expression for host, disk, level and datestamp on
16 command line argument.
17 * All changer scripts.
18 o Add LOCK-TIMEOUT property.
21 Changes in release 3.3.2
24 o New IGNORE-ZEROS property.
26 o Fix use of subdir for restore.
29 o New PASSWORD, USERNAME, TENANT_ID, TENANT_NAME properties.
30 o New STORAGE_API property.
31 o New S3_MULTI_DELETE property
32 o New CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET and REFRESH_TOKEN properties.
33 o New CREATE-BUCKET property.
34 o New PROJECT-ID property.
35 o New REUSE-CONNECTION property.
36 o Works with swift and google storage.
38 o Add INDIRECT property.
40 o Add 'max-warnings', The maximum number of warning lines in the report.
41 o Default 'columspec' changed to: HostName=0:-12:12,Disk=1:-11:11,Level=1:-1:1,OrigKB=1:-7:0,OutKB=1:-7:0,Compress=1:-6:1,DumpTime=1:-7:7,Dumprate=1:-6:1,TapeTime=1:-6:6,TapeRate=1:-6:1
43 o Add --no-default and --print-source arguments for config and
47 o Add --decrypt, --no-decrypt, --server-decrypt, --client-decrypt,
48 --compress, --no-compress, --server-compress and --client-compress
50 * fix for compilation with newer glib.
51 * fix for compilation on cigwin.
54 Changes in release 3.3.1
57 o New 'settransalte' command.
59 o new '$s' substitution in autolabel.
60 o new 'max-dle-by-volume' global option.
61 o new 'eject-volume' global option.
63 o new 'includefile' option.
65 o new '--client-verbose' argument.
66 * All programs have a new '--version' argument.
67 * ampgsql can take property from server configuration.
68 * amgetconf can print one property of a section.
70 o new S3_SERVER_SIDE_ENCRYPTION property.
71 o use multiple thread to speedup deleting a volume.
74 Changes in release 3.3.0
76 * The default auth is changed to "bsdtcp", if you are using the default bsd
77 then you must add it to your configuration.
79 o in amanda-client.conf
80 o in dumptype/disklist
81 o in xinetd (if no '-auth' argument to amandad)
82 * amdump trap crtl-c, it still send the report and do cleanup if you do
83 one crtl-c, do it more than once to abort the run.
85 o use multiple threads to speedup the transfer
86 o can connect to eucalytus.
87 o new NB_THREADS_BACKUP property
88 o new NB_THREADS_RECOVERY property
89 o new S3_HOST property
90 o new S3_SERVICE_PATH property
91 o new S3_SUBDOMAIN property
92 * chg-aggregate: new changer that use other changer sequentially.
94 * Add meta label in tapelist file
96 o support for removable disk
97 o new NUM-SLOT property
98 o new AUTO-CREATE-SLOT property
99 o new REMOVABLE property
101 o new UMOUNT property
102 o new UMOUNT-LOCKFILE property
103 o new UMOUNT-IDLE property
104 * new taperscan algorithm:
105 o oldest: this algorithm try to run through the volumes in the oldest
107 o lexical: this algorithm try to run through the volumes in the natural
109 * Change in amanda.conf
110 o new meta-autolabel option
111 o autolabel can include org, config, barcode, meta in the label
112 o new client-name option in appication and script.
113 * application and script in amanda-client.conf can be used to set default
114 properties for application or script.
116 o The label argument is no longer required, an autolabel can be
119 o new --barcode option
120 o new --assign option
121 * amgtar, amstar: The path must be specified, it will not works with a
123 * amrecover: decompression and decryption are now done on the client if
124 compression/encryption was done on the client.
125 * amtape: inventory print the current slot
127 o autoflush have value "no|yes|all"
128 o script have single-execution setting.
129 o Add pre-amcheck, post-amcheck, pre-estimate, post-estimate, pre-backup
130 and post-backup to execute-on of script.
131 o Add taperscan and interactivity section.
132 o add 'server' value in recovery-limit.
133 o add dump-limit in a dumptype.
135 o add amdump-server setting.
136 * script are searched in $APPLICATION_DIR, $CONFIG_DIR/<conf>/application
137 and $CONFIG_DIR/application
140 o is also installed on client
141 * new amdumpd server service, if enable, it allow client to start a backup
143 * new amdump_client program, it is use on client to start a backup of itself
144 * implement restore command amzfs-sendrecv, it can be use with amrecover.
146 Changes in release 3.2.2
148 * Do not restore the NUL padding bytes, some program fail with them.
149 * Fix driver doing nothing if taper crash early.
150 * Fix taperalog *FIT no going to second volume.
151 * Fix amrestore '-p' not going to next file.
152 * flush even if flush threshold are not met if it save tape space.
153 * fix crash in amtrmidx due to memory leak.
154 * amsamba use 'Use smbclient -TF' for restore.
156 Changes in release 3.2.1
158 * barcode are added to the tapelist file.
159 * Faster 'amadmin find', improve speed on many programs.
160 * device-output-buffer-size default to a minimum of 4*block_size.
161 * ssh auth use the client-port
163 o "Can't opendata output stream: Connection refused".
164 o Better handling of dump to tape.
165 o Corrupted 'amdump' log file, amstatus not showing correct state.
166 o Execute subprocess with the config overwrite.
167 o tape-device allow to set LEOM.
168 o Crash in robot changer.
169 o Script output property are not sent to application.
171 Changes in release 3.2.0
173 * Support for multiple simultaneous writes to storage devices
174 o Can write to all available drives in parallel.
175 o Works only with the new changer API.
176 o Useful if two or more volumes are used in a single run.
177 o dump direct to tape can be scheduled any time during the run,
178 previously they were done sequencially after all dump to holding disk.
179 o enabled with the new 'taper-parallel-write' configuration option.
180 * Support for LEOM in storage devices
181 o allows splitting without partial parts, saving space
182 o much more efficient, since parts need not be cached on disk in most
184 * new, simpler splitting commands in the tapetype section:
185 part-size, part-cache-type, part-cache-dir, part-cache-max-size; see
186 amanda.conf(5) for details
187 * Amanda server configuration file changes (amanda.conf)
188 o new configuration keyword:
189 + taper-parallel-write -- How many drive amanda can write to
191 o deprecated configuration keywords:
193 + amrecover_check_label
194 * the CONFIG parameter to amidxtaped is now required; this means that
195 versions of amrecover older than 2.4.3 will be unable to recover from
196 servers running Amanda-3.2 and later.
197 * The new dumptype and global parameters 'recovery-limit' can be used to
198 limit which hosts may recover from a particular DLE. See amanda.conf(5)
199 and amanda-auth(7) for more information.
200 * Several old changers have been removed - these changers will work with
201 Amanda for the forseeable future, but are no longer included in the
209 o chg-null (use the new "chg-null:")
210 o chg-rait (use the new "chg-rait:{dev1,dev2}")
215 o new '--no-taper' option to start the run in degraded mode
216 * Amvault is much improved, but still experimental:
217 o supports assembling split parts on the source volume and re-splitting
218 them on the destination
219 o supports filtering dumps with the same syntax as amfetchdump
220 o a --fulls-only option skips all incremental dumps on the source
221 o an --export option tries to move tertiary volumes to import/export
223 o command-line syntax has changed incompatibly; see manpage or
225 * Rewritten and improved:
229 Changes in release 3.1.0
231 * Deprecated old changers; see amanda-changers(7) for replacements. These
232 changers are still available in the distribution, but will be removed in a
239 * Although chg-zd-mtx is still supported, we recommend that all users upgrade
240 to the more efficient chg-robot. See contrib/convert-zd-mtx-to-robot.sh
241 for a useful conversion script.
242 * Amanda server configuration file changes (amanda.conf)
243 o deprecated configuration keywords:
245 o keywords deprecated in 2.6.1:
249 o new configuration keyword
250 + autolabel -- replace label_new_tapes
251 + columnspec -- can specify a precision.
252 + order -- in script, to specify script order execution.
253 + client_port -- in dumptype, to specify which port to connect on
255 + estimate -- in dumptype, can specify multiple estimate method.
256 o accept 'define' keyword for defining an holdingdisk
257 * Amanda client configuration file changes (amanda-client.conf)
258 o new configuration keyword
259 + debug_days -- how many days to keep debug files.
260 + client_port -- use by amrecover, specify which port to connect on
262 * Removed compile-time default --with-changer-device: specify a device
263 explicitly in amanda.conf instead
264 * amtape behavior has changed:
265 o 'device' subcommand removed
266 o 'slot advance' subcommand removed
267 o 'update' subcommand no longer displays each slot as it is updated, and
268 is not supported by all changers
269 o taperscan output has changed
270 o new 'inventory' subcommand
273 + --changer -- Specify which changer to use
274 + --cleanup -- Remove logs and indexes associated with label
275 + --dryrun -- do not update the original copies.
276 + --erase -- Attempt to erase the data contained on the volume
277 + --keep-label -- Do not remove label from the tapelist
278 + --quiet -- Opposite of --verbose
279 + --verbose -- List backups of hosts and disks that are being
282 o new --label option.
283 o new --properties option.
285 o changed wildcard setting for S3_BUCKET_LOCATION from "" to "*"
286 o new 'ndmp:' device to write to a tape on an ndmp server.
287 o new 'dvdrw:' device to write to a dvd drive.
289 o new properties to many applications
291 + new ACLS, SELINUX and XATTRS properties
293 + Allow '\' in diskname and amandapass.
294 + new ALLOW-ANONYMOUS property.
296 + ampgsql -- Backup PostgreSQL using continuous WAL archiving
297 + amsuntar -- Backup filesytem with the SUN tar
298 + amraw -- Backup only one directory entry
299 * New taper, with DirectTCP support, changed tape and catalog format:
300 o all dumpfiles are now F_SPLIT_DUMPFILE
301 o all on-tape dumpfiles have numparts=-1, since it's no longer possible
302 to calculate this value in advance
303 o there is no logging or reporting of zero-byte, successful parts (this
304 may cause gaps in filenums in the catalog)
305 * Redesigned amreport
306 o much more natural command-line interface (just run 'amreport $config')
307 o experimental XML output
308 * configuration override for dumptype works with inheritance.
310 Changes in release 2.6.1p2
311 * amtapetype: new -p option
315 o file not removed from holding disk
316 o sendbackup compatibility with a 2.4.2 server
317 o handle EROFS error from tape device.
318 o zfs snapshot name us the diskname.
319 o fix fd allocation in amandad
322 Changes in release 2.6.1p1
324 * amplot: better output
325 * Don't include genversion.h in distribution tarballs.
332 o compilation on some platform
335 Changes in release 2.6.1
337 * Amanda server configuration file changes (amanda.conf)
338 o deprecated configuration keywords:
342 * Application API: Allow to easily write wrappers around any backup program,
343 See the 'amanda-applications' man page.
344 o amgtar: Use GNU tar, it is a lot more configurable than the GNUTAR
345 program. See 'amgtar' man page.
346 o amstar: Use star to do a backup, it work only on a partition. See
348 o amsamba: Use smbclient to backup a cifs share, see amsamba man page.
349 o amzfs-sendrecv: Do a backup of a ZFS filesystem with 'zfs send'.
350 * Script API: Allow to run script before and after amanda process, see the
351 'amanda-scripts' man page.
352 o amzfs-snapshot: Do a snapshot of a ZFS filesystem, then 'amgtar'
353 application will backup the snapshot. See 'amzfs-snapshot' man page.
354 o script-email: Simple script to send email. see 'script-email' man page.
355 * Changer API v2.0: perl-based changer interface supporting concurrent
356 use of multiple devices and changers.
357 o currently operating in "compatibility mode," calling old changer
359 o under active development.
360 * Xfer API: generic library to move and filter data with maximal efficiency
361 o can read from and write to arbitrary devices, files, etc.
362 o only used in some applications.
363 * Amanda archive format: A simple archive format that an application can
364 use to create backup image.
365 * 'amarchiver' program to manipulate file in amanda archive format.
366 * Many improvements to report better error message to user.
367 * amtape subcommands 'slot prev' and 'slot last' are removed.
368 * Dozens more perl libraries, with more stable interfaces.
369 * Many bugs fixed and improvement.
370 * amgetconf '--client' option to retrieve config from
371 amanda-client.conf on a client.
372 * Amanda configuration file changes
373 o new application-tool section
374 o new script-tool section
376 o new changer section
378 Changes in release 2.6.0
380 * configure --disable-shared doesn't work because perl modules require
381 shared libraries. Use configure --with-static-binaries to build
382 statically linked binaries.
383 * 'amverify' and 'amverifyrun' are deprecated and replaced with the
384 new, more flexible 'amcheckdump'
385 * 'amdd' and 'ammt' are deprecated.
386 * Some Amanda files are now installed in new "amanda/" subdirectories:
387 libraries are now installed in $libdir/amanda and internal programs
388 are now installed in $libexecdir/amanda.
389 * The amandates file, previously at /etc/amandates, is now at
390 $localstatedir/amanda/amandates. You may want to move your existing
391 /etc/amandates when you upgrade Amanda.
392 * New 'amcryptsimple', 'amgpgcrypt' - encryption plugins based on gpg.
393 * New 'amserverconfig', 'amaddclient' - Initial Amanda configuration tools
394 these tools make assumptions, please see man page.
395 * Many bugs fixed and code rewrite/cleanup
396 * glib is required to compile and run amanda.
397 * Device API: pluggable interface to storage devices, supporting tapes,
398 vtapes, RAIT, and Amazon S3
399 * New perl modules link directly to Amanda, to support writing Amanda
400 applications in Perl. Perl module are installed by default in the perl
401 installsitelib directory. It can be changed with
402 'configure --with-amperldir'.
403 * New 'local' security driver supports backups of the amanda server
404 without any network connection or other configuration.
405 * Almost 200 unit tests are available via 'make installcheck'.
406 * Amanda configuration file changes
407 o amanda.conf changes
408 + flush-threshold-dumped
409 + flush-threshold-scheduled
412 + usetimestamps default to yes
414 Changes in release 2.5.2p1
418 + missing sockaddr_storage
419 + missing AI_V4MAPPED and AI_ALL
420 + compare of IPv4 and IPv6 v4mapped address.
421 + (bsd/bsdudp): server use two sockets,
422 one for IPv4 and one for IPv6
426 o compilation on some platform
429 Changes in release 2.5.2
431 * Many bugs fixed and code cleanup
432 * krb5 auth is working
433 * Works with IPv6 address
434 * Amanda configuration file changes
435 o amanda.conf changes
436 + debugging is enabled in the config file
437 see all debug_* config option
438 + tapetype 'readblocksize', if maxtapeblocksize is set too
439 larger for your hardware
441 Changes in release 2.5.1p3
444 * amrecover improve handling of not ascii filename in index.
445 * Works with tar-1.16 and exit status of 1.
446 * Can define a LASTSLOT in a chg-disk config file.
449 Changes in release 2.5.1p2
452 * amoverview is working
453 * dumptype starttime is working
455 * Amanda command changes
456 o amtape accept the -o arguments
457 o amgetconf --list to list all tapetype, dumptype, holdingdisk
459 o amgetconf can return a value of a specific tapetype, dumptype,
460 holdingdisk or interface
463 Changes in release 2.5.1p1
466 o Timeout waiting for ACK
467 o "illegal density" with dump
468 o IRIX: Parse config file, amrecover
470 o amrecover with FreeBSD/OpenBSD
471 * Some other small cleanup.
472 * Remove contrib/sst.
475 Changes in release 2.5.1
477 * Defects found by Coverity scan and Klocwork K7 analysis tools fixed.
478 * Works with GNU tar 1.15.91 - work with new gtar state file format.
479 * Open SSL encryption support
480 * Two new authentication methods: bsdtcp, bsdudp.
481 * Unlimited number of DLEs on a client with bsdtcp, rsh and ssh
482 authentication methods.
483 * Recovery process amrecover uses Secure API. amoldrecover command
484 (same syntax and functionality as amrecover command) is provided for
485 compatibility with old Amanda releases. amoldrecover command uses old
486 amidxtaped/amindexd protocol.
487 * Amanda debug files are separated into client/server/amandad and
488 are also classified based on Amanda configuration name.
490 * Amanda command changes
491 o amfetchdump -o is replaced by -O.
492 o amcheck -w option does all tests including the tape writable test.
493 Use amcheck -t -w to do only the tape writable test.
494 o -o command option to override Amanda configuration. See amanda man
496 o amgetconf command doesn't write the BUGGY message when a entry
497 is not found in the configuration file.
499 * Amanda configuration file changes
500 o amanda.conf changes
501 + amrecover_do_fsf in amanda.conf defaults to yes
502 + amrecover_check_label in amanda.conf defaults to yes
503 + usetimestamps in amanda.conf to support multiple
504 backup runs in a calendar day.
505 + holdingdisk in amanda.conf supports new values:
506 NEVER, AUTO, REQUIRED.
507 + amandad_path, client_username and ssh_keys in
508 amanda.conf for ssh/rsh authentication.
509 o New amanda client configuration file - amanda-client.conf.
510 Different client configuration file can be used for each Amanda
512 + gnutar_list-dir and amandates can be specified in
513 Amanda client configuration file - amanda-client.conf
514 o .amandahosts format changes to allow use of secure API for recovery.
515 o Amanda service entries in xinetd configuration has changed.
518 Changes in release 2.5.0p2
520 * listhost subcommand in amrecover
522 Changes in release 2.5.0p1
524 * Add the 'amtape update' command.
526 Changes in release 2.5.0
528 * Communication security/authentication: Kerberos 4/5, OpenSSH
529 * Data security: Symmetric/Assymetric encrytion algorithms (aesutil
530 and gpg encryption), Encryption can be done on server or client,
531 Custom encryption utilities can be used.
532 * Compression: Ability to add custom compression tools. This is a
533 really useful feature especially since it can specified for a DLE. You
534 can use different compression algorithm for images, binaries, ascii files
536 * Dump images spanning multiple media volumes - Dump images are no
537 longer restricted to a single media volume (tape or vtape). Data restoration
538 can be done using amrecover and amfetchdump commands.
539 * Auto tape labelling - This optional feature is good for disk backups.
541 Change in release 2.4.5p1
543 * New [--days <num>] argument to 'amadmin <conf> tape'.
544 * New amoverview -last -num0 -togo0 options.
546 Change in release 2.4.5
548 * new displayunit global option to select the unit use to display number
549 k=kilo, m=mega, g=giga, t=tera.
550 * new amoverview -skipmissed option.
552 Change in release 2.4.5b1
554 * holding disk disk use timestamped directory.
555 * autoflush flush today's dump.
556 * new bumppercent global option, this should improve bumping criteria,
557 the bumpsize is set to a fixed value which can be adequate for small
559 * bumpsize, bumppercent, bumpdays and bumpmult can be in a dumptype.
560 * calcsize support include and exclude like gnutar.
561 * new 'estimate' dumptype option to select estimate type:
562 CLIENT: estimate by the dumping program.
563 CALCSIZE: estimate by the calcsize program, a lot faster but less acurate.
564 SERVER: estimate based on statistic from previous run, take second but
565 can be wrong on the estimate size.
567 Changes in release 2.4.4p3
569 * new chg-iomega changer script.
570 * amanda will not use a tape if it's label is not in the tapelist file
571 (eg. after an amrmtape).
573 Changes in release 2.4.4p2
575 * new initial_poll_delay config in chg-zd-mtx
576 * 'amadmin find' list disk removed from the disklist.
577 * amrecover can recover a disk removed from the disklist file.
578 * amanda works with samba3.
579 * new chg-disk changer script to use with the file: driver.
580 * Kerberos 4 support integrated and functional again.
582 Changes in release 2.4.4p1
584 * amverify do not advance to next tape at the end.
585 * new amflush -b and -s options, change -f behavior.
586 * new chg-mcutil changer.
587 * amrecover_changer works with chg-multi.
588 * default driveslot for chg-zd-mtx is now 0.
589 * amplot generate color postscript by default.
590 * amplot -b flag to generate b/w postscript.
591 * rait: works with file:
592 * print a postscript label for each tape used.
594 Changes in release 2.4.4
596 * New -a option to amcheck to always send an email.
598 Changes in release 2.4.4b1
600 * maxpromoteday: New option for a dumptype.
601 * New amtapetype program (replace tapetype)
602 * Client compile on CYGWIN
603 * amrestore -f <fileno> : amrestore can do fsf before reading the tape
604 * amrestore -l <label> : amrestore can check the label before restoring.
605 * New config options:
606 amrecover_do_fsf: Amrecover will use the -f flag of amrestore to position the
608 amrecover_check_label: amrecover will pass the -l flag to amrestore.
609 amrecover_changer: amrecover will use your changer.
610 maxdumpsize: The maximum size of the dumps during a run,
611 default to tapesize * runtapes
612 taperalgo: select your algo for the taper, try 'largestfit', it can improve
614 * amrecover allow to retry a skip a tape.
615 * New --days option to 'amadmin <config> balance' command.
616 * New --date option to amstatus
617 * amreport print an usage by tape.
618 * Newer promote algorithm that try to reduce the number of full on a
619 single host in a run.
620 * New changer: chg-juke, chg-null and chg-rait
622 Changes in release 2.4.3
624 * Few small bug fixed
625 * New runtapes argument to amverify.
626 * New amverifyrun program.
627 * 2.4.3 client works with older server.
629 Changes in release 2.4.3b4
631 * new noop packet type. It allow the server to know the client features.
632 * exclude list with relative path is working again.
633 * amstatus is working again.
635 Changes in release 2.4.3b3
637 * --with-maxtapeblocksize configure options
638 * blocksize tapetype option
639 * file-pad tapetype option
640 * Multiple exclude in dumptype
641 * Option include in dumptype
642 * New disklist syntax:
643 * hostname diskname [ diskdevice ] dumptype [ spindle [ interface ] ]
644 * chg-zd-mtx: Major cleanup and general overhaul.
645 * amrecover: new listdisk command.
647 Changes in release 2.4.3b2
649 * amrestore try to find the next chunk in the current directory.
650 * amrecover: You can change the tape device between each tape.
651 * amstatus work with amflush.
653 Changes in release 2.4.3b1
656 * New [host [disk]*]* arguments to amdump, amcheck, amadmin and amflush.
657 * New [-D datastamp]* arguments to amflush.
658 * amrecover: cd accept shell wildcard, new command cdx accept regex.
659 * new autoflush option.
660 * new dumperstr option to specify the priority order of each dumper.
662 Changes in release 2.4.2
664 * Samba passwords are now sent to smbclient via a pipe and never displayed.
665 * Debug files in /tmp/amanda (--with-debug-dir) are now timestamped and old
666 ones automatically cleaned out. This means more space (a few KBytes) will
667 be used since in a given run, several of the programs are called more than
668 once. But it also means important debugging information should no longer
669 be lost by the file being overwritten. The length of time to keep the
670 files is controlled by --with-debug-days (default: 4). The old flag
671 --with-pid-debug-files is no longer needed and is ignored.
672 * dumptypes can be specialized in the disklist file
673 * Amanda will never use more space than specified (use) for an holding
675 * A dump on holding disk can spread multiple holding disks
676 * negative chunksize is no longer supported
677 * chunksize is now 1 Gb by default
678 * ufsdump -S is now supported on Solaris
679 * Samba 2.0.0 is now supported
680 * New `incronly' strategy, similar to skip-full, but allows manual
681 scheduling of full backups
682 * chg-scsi was ported to several platforms
683 * --with-amandahosts is now enabled by default
684 * new force-bump, force-no-bump and unforce-bump command in amadmin.
685 * Increased the maximum number of filesystems that can be backed up
686 from a single host, by increasing the maximum UDP request packet
688 * A new `dtimeout' keyword in amanda.conf to replace the READ_TIMEOUT
689 constant in dumper.c.
690 * A new `ctimeout' keyword in amanda.conf to replace the CHECK_TIMEOUT
691 constant in amcheck.c.
692 * new amtrmlog command
693 * --with-samba-user is deprecated, the username go in the amandapass file
695 Changes in release 2.4.1
697 * FAQ for new users, in docs/FAQ.
698 * A new `runspercycle' keyword in amanda.conf to specify the number
699 of amdump runs in a dumpcycle. The default is one run every day.
700 A value of 0 (the default) means the same value as dumpcycle.
701 A value of -1 means guess the number of runs from the tapelist file,
702 which is the number of tape used in the last dumpcycle days / runtapes.
703 If you don't run amdump every days, you must set runspercycle
704 otherwise amanda will noy be able to balance the dump. You must
705 set runspercycle to -1 if you want the same behavior as previous
707 * Space to be use as holding disk can now be "use all space except ??? Kb"
708 using a negative value for the 'use' parameter.
709 * amrecover will restore SAMBA backups using SAMBA.
710 * New `amstatus' program.
711 * New `chg-scsi' tape changer program, that replaces `chg-chio' and uses
712 tape-changer-related ioctls on OSs that support them.
713 * Reporter can now print tape labels.
714 * ZFTAPEs are now supported on Linux.
715 * amrestore now accepts a list of filesystems to be restored.
716 * New `clean' amtape command.
717 * amlabel will only overwrite an Amanda tape if `-f' is specified.
718 * Tapes can now be marked so as not to be recycled with amadmin no-reuse.
719 * amidxtrm will no longer remove index files of backups in active tapes.
720 * Large dumps can now be split into multiple files on holding disk
721 (but they won't span across tapes yet).
722 * A total estimate time-out may be specified.
723 * Fixed skip-incr and skip-full support.
724 * amcheck now accepts -Maddress to send e-mail to the specified address.
725 * amdump, amflush and amcheck will use the log files as locks, so as
726 to avoid running concurrently.
727 * driver now supports configurable level-0 dumps in degraded mode via
728 new amanda.conf keyword "reserve"; see docs/WHATS.NEW for details.
729 * Configure now looks for vxdump and vxrestore in /usr/lib/fs/vxfs for Solaris
730 systems and will use it vxdump/vxrestore automatically on vxfs filesystems.
731 * New `killpgrp' setuid-root program, that kills estimate dumps even
732 if they are setuid-root.
734 Changes in release 2.4.0p1
736 * Fixed kerberos encryption
737 * New --with-owner configure option, to specify owner of installed files
738 * amcheck now checks for the existence of gnutar-listdir and of a
739 compressor on the server (for indexes and server compression)
740 * Implemented dumptype option `strategy skip'
741 * Updated to libtool 1.2a
742 * Minor portability-related bugfixes.
744 Changes in release 2.4.0
746 * Several security-related fixes, see docs/SECURITY for details.
747 * New configuration file syntax: dumptypes can now be used as keywords.
748 * New text database format, to replace dbm/ndbm/gdbm/db databases with
749 a more portable and user-friendly format.
750 * Index files are now sent through a separate TCP connection, as they
751 are generated, instead of being stored in /tmp. This breaks Amanda
752 protocol backward compatibility.
753 * Estimates are now performed concurrently, if maxdumps>1.
754 * At configure time, it is now possible to specify a suffix for amanda
755 service names (--with-testing=suffix) and a directory for debugging
756 files (--with-debugging=/directory/name)
757 * New tape changer configuration keywords, that partially standardize
758 tape changer script configuration interface.
759 * amrecover can now handle GNU tar and AIX dump restores; it must now
761 * Shared libraries are built by default, using GNU libtool.
762 * Extended regular expression syntax has been adopted.
763 * amcheck will no longer report failures about unused programs.
764 * It is now possible to specify a SAMBA username at configure time.
765 * BSD security is now enabled by default.
766 * A time-out for estimate requests can now be specified in amanda.conf.
767 * New patch-system script, for editing /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf.
768 * Amdump will wait if a file named `hold' exists in the log directory.
769 * Various bugfixes and new ports.
771 Changes in release 2.3.0.4
772 * New chg-generic.conf option 'multieject' added which lets
773 chg-generic work on tape drives that need multiple 'mt offline'
774 commands. See examples/chg-generic.conf for more information.
775 * New configure options:
776 --with-db=DBLIB Force database library choice from {db,dbm,gdbm,ndbm}
777 --enable-buffered-dump Use buffered sockets on server for faster dumps
778 --with-group=GROUPNAME Install all files into group GROUPNAME
779 * Include the file seagate-changer.c which controls
780 Seagate/Conner/Archive autoloading DAT drive on NetBSD systems.
781 * Add a new amanda.conf option named "starttime" which is used in the
782 dumptype configuration. It takes one argument which is a time of day
783 (local timezone) formated as either hhmm or hmm (no `.'s, no `:'s,
784 just an integer). This tells Amanda to start a particular dump at
786 * Index files are now retrieved from the clients through amandad, not rsh/rcp.
787 * Fix configure bug when multiple invocations would not do the correct things.
788 * Better fully qualified domain name support.
789 * Many little dumper fixes.
790 * Remove C style comments from amrmtape and fix a bug when there is
791 only one tape in the tapelist.
792 * More declarations of Unix system functions for those OSes that do not
794 * Fix --with-mmap configure bug.
796 Changes in release 2.3.0.4b3
797 * Include amplot-2.2.6 which makes plots of the amdump files for performance
798 improvements. Amplot requires gnuplot and a version of awk that
799 understands command line variable assignment.
800 * Include amoverview which creates a list of each disk dumped and the level
801 and success or failure of those dumps over a complete tapecycle.
802 * Amanda now supports backups of clients in different domains. Requires
803 using the configure --with-fqdn options and fully qualified domain
804 names (FQDNs) in the disklist file.
805 * rth-changer checks all system calls for valid returns.
806 * no-changer and hp-changer use different status files and do more checking.
807 * amrestore works again with gzip compressed tapes.
808 * New setuid program rundump for systems where dump must run as root.
809 * Setuid programs are now installed o-rwx for tighter security.
810 * Fix bug where if Amanda was not configured using the --with-bsd-security
811 configure option, Amanda would not connect to the client machines. This
813 * Rundump and runtar now check if the proper user is invoking them.
814 * Amanda now can use gdbm if the compatibility header files are not installed.
815 * Bug fixes for gnutar file exclusions.
816 * Fix bug in sendsize which would loop forever if debugging was not turned on.
817 * Bug fixes in Samba code.
818 * More configure and bug fixes for HP-UX, m88k-motorola-sysv4, SGI, OSF, and
821 Changes in release 2.3.0.4b2
822 * New tape changer script (rth-changer) for the Robotic Tape Handling system.
823 * Include amindex-1.0 from Alan McIvor.
824 * Gnutar incrementals should now work.
825 * amgetidx now caches if a remote client is reachable.
826 * amanda.conf settings used before --with-dbdir and --with-logdir settings
828 * New configure options:
829 --with-mmap force mmap() instead of shared memory
830 --with-gnutar-listed-incremental=DIR gnutar directory lists go in DIR
831 --enable-gnutar-atime-preserve gnutar preserves atime, do not use
832 --with-pid-debug-files use pid in /tmp debugging filenames
833 * Samba support must now be explicitly included using --with-smblcient.
834 * Amanda now compiles with K&R compilers.
835 * Better AIX, Linux, OSF support.
836 * configure checks if /dev/r devices exist or not.
837 * Amanda uses POSIX fcntl locking before flock or lockf locking if available.
838 * dumper.c uses less aggressive I/O values for SunOS server support.
839 * Many bug fixes in the configure script for various platforms.
840 * Many bug fixes to codes.
842 Changes in release 2.3.0.4b1
843 * Configuration now uses configure. Build environment now uses
844 automake and autoconf.
845 * Samba PC client backup support added.
846 * New programs and scripts:
847 amrmtape: invalidate the contents of an existing backup tape
848 amverify: check Amanda tapes for gnutar driven backups.
849 hp-changer: script for a HP DAT changer.
850 no-changer: make a single tape appear like an infinite count tape stacker.
851 * New options added to programs:
852 amadmin: `amadmin <conf> version' shows version information.
853 amtape: `amtape <conf> current' shows the current tape label,
854 * Amanda now supports server side compression of dumps on the tape
855 host. Use the srvcompress option in amanda.conf.
856 * Better gnutar support for indexing. Amanda now lets you exclude
858 * Tape planning improvements.
859 * Email reports have better formating for disks with long mount points.
860 * Tighter DNS checking added to amandad.
861 * More debugging added to several programs.
862 * Amdump now calls amgetidx and amtrmidx.
863 * Better support for multidomain environments.
864 * Contains amindex-0.3 from Alan McIvor.
865 * Many bug fixes and compiler warnings handled.
867 Changes in release 2.3.0.3
868 * Amadmin uses regular expression matching to match disks.
869 * Expand the column width of the disk names from reporter.
870 * Contains amindex-0.2 from Alan McIvor.
873 Changes in release 2.3.0.2
876 Changes in release 2.3.0.1
877 * Contains amindex-0.1 from Alan McIvor.
880 Changes in release 2.3.0 alpha
881 * A number of material bugs fixed, including fixes incorporated into
882 John Stoffel's WPI patches to amanda, which he called 2.2.6.5.
883 * Backup files larger than 2 GB now supported. The current limit is
884 2^31 Kbytes (2 terabytes), which should hold us for a few more years
886 * Support for GNUTAR-based backups.
887 * Support for writing to multiple tapes (sequentially) in one run.
888 * Support for multiple backups in parallel from the same client host.
889 * Records from the curinfo database can be exported and imported
890 to/from a textual format. This allows fixing a corrupted database by
891 running the text version through a script and reimporting it.
892 Individual records or the entire database can be exported/imported.
894 Changes in release 2.2.6
895 * A number of material bugs fixed.
896 * A lot of lint picked in the whole package.
897 * The documentation is now reasonably up to date.
898 * This version has been locally compiled and at least the client side
899 tested on the following systems:
901 Solaris 2.3 BSDI BSD/386 1.1
902 Ultrix 4.2 NetBSD 1.0
903 DEC OSF/1 2.0 AIX 3.2
904 I don't have any HP/UX machines locally to try it on, but I've
905 tracked patches submitted by Neal Becker <neal@ctd.comset.com>, so
906 I'm reasonably confident that 2.2.6 shouldn't be far from the mark on
909 Changes in release 2.2.5
910 * SYSV shared memory no longer required on server side if mmap is
912 * Supports GZIP compression.
913 * Supports use of mount names as well as device names in disk list
914 (eg "/usr" instead of "sd0g").
915 * Amanda now thinks in real-time - you may run it several times a day
916 if you wish, and it won't get confused.
917 * Supports Kerberos 4 security as well as BSD-style .rhosts, including
918 encrypting files over the net. The Kerberos support is available as
919 a separate add-on package - see the file KERBEROS.HOW-TO-GET on the
921 * Improved network protocol - faster startup, no longer dump specific,
922 hooks in place for non-dump clients.
923 * Client-side checks in amcheck - can check sanity of all client hosts
925 * Supports multiple holding disks, and load balances between them.